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BASS , the name of a See also: family of See also: English brewers
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The founder of the See also: firm, See also: William Bass (b
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1720), was originally a carrier, one of his chief clients being Benjamin Printon, a
See also: Burton-on-Trent See also: brewer
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By 1777 Bass had saved a little See also: money, and seeing the growing demand for Burton See also: beer he started as a brewer himself
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The See also: principal market for Burton beer at that See also: time was in St See also: Petersburg, whither the beer could be sent by See also: water See also: direct from Burton via the Trent and See also: Hull, and William Bass managed to secure a tolerable share of the large See also: Russian orders
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But in 1822 the Russian See also: government placed a prohibitory duty on Burton ales, and the Burton brewers were forced into cultivating the home market
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William Bass opened up a connexion with See also: London, and established a fairly profitable home See also: trade
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A misunderstanding between the See also: East See also: India See also: Company and the London brewers who were the proprietors of See also: Hodgson's India
Pale See also: Ale, at that time the See also: standard drink of Englishmen in the East, resulted in Bass being asked to supply a beer which would withstand the See also: Indian See also: climate and be generally suitable to the Indian market
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After a series of experiments he produced what is still known as Bass's pale ale
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This new and lighter beer at once became popular all over India, and Bass's firm became the largest in Burton
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After William Bass's See also: death the business was carried on by his son, M
.
T
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Bass, and then by his See also: grandson, Michael See also: Thomas Bass (1799-1884)
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In 1827 a vessel laden with Bass's beer was wrecked in the Irish Channel
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A large proportion of the cargo was however salved and sold at Liverpool, where it met with
See also: great approval in the See also: local market, and through this chance circumstance the firm opened up a See also: regular trade in the See also: north-west of See also: England and See also: Ireland
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" Bass " was, however, little drunk in London till 1851, when it was supplied on draught at the See also: Exhibition of that See also: year, since. which time its reputation has been See also: world-wide
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In 188o the business was turned into a limited liability company
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Michael Thomas Bass, besides actively conducting and extending the firm's operations, was a See also: man of great public spirit and philanthropy, and the towns of Burton and See also: Derby are largely indebted to his munificence
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He took a keen See also: interest in all questions affecting the welfare of the working classes, and was largely instrumental in securing the abolition of imprisonment for See also: debt
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On his death, See also: prior to which he had taken into partnership Messrs Ratcliff and Gretton, two of the leading officials of the brewery, converting the business into a limited company known as Messrs Bass, Ratcliff & Gretton, Ltd., the control of the firm passed to his sons, Michael Arthur Bass and See also: Hamar Bass (d
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1898)
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Michael Arthur Bass (1837-1909), after twenty-one years in parliament as member first for Stafford, then for two divisions of See also: Staffordshire, was in 1886-raised to the See also: peerage as Baron Burton; by a See also: special patent of 1897 the peerage descended to his daughter, Nellie, the wife of Mr J
.
E
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See also: Baillie of Dochfour, the baronetcy descending to his See also: nephew W
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